It's been an unseasonably warm week, yesterday so warm that I was leaving my winter jacket at home.

I've been particularly happy to see all the people out and about. It's especially a joy to see people out with their dogs. (Even though I've never kept a dog myself and never felt up to it.) It's nice to see all the families and kids out and about. I was biking back home on Friday and the daycare on Gore Street was walking their toddlers to the playground when I passed (a kind of group I always think of as "the ducklings", all wearing their yellow vests and holding onto a line, it's too cute).

Yesterday, I took Erica to the library to meet a friend in the afternoon. We had lunch at S&S in Inman on the way, I hadn't been there in ages. Checked out some more books, though I haven't finished the ones I'm in the middle of yet. I've been reading Erica Bruce Coville's "Rod Allbright and the Galactic Patrol" series, the one that begins with Aliens Ate My Homework, and we're on the fourth (and final) book in that now. (While waiting for the next one to come in at the library, I've also been reading her chapters of The Jungle Book.) I got the first book of Garth Nix's "Keys to the Kingdom" series, which I remember liking and started rereading while hanging out at the library, but I'd forgotten basically all of the plot's details since I last read it ages ago. Maybe Erica will want to read it some day.

After, we went to pick out and assemble some valentines for Erica's class. Erica really took the lead on the plans there. She really does like holiday stuff. (And by coincidence we ran into a bunch of Erica's friends who were on their way to Gracie's so we all got ice cream together.) For dinner, got takeout sushi from Ebi.

Today, took Erica climbing, and she helped me get groceries. Later in the afternoon we went to a Valentines card-making get-together at the Culture House community center popup in Union. Then I made burritos at home for dinner. Erica helped, we made guacamole following a recipe she picked out from one of her cookbooks.

There's so much more on my mind, some of which I can't write about really and some of which I never seem to get around to putting to page.